As pretty as the new trailer for the upcoming Spielberg/Jackson "The Adventures of Tintin" looks -- weird motion capture movement and faces and all -- I find myself wondering if I wouldn't prefer to watch Tintin as a traditionally animated film. It is clear that the film attempts to capture some of the style of the original comic strips in the character design, but there is still some lingering tug at the back of my mind that would like to watch a film that looked less "spectacular" and allowed the spectacle of the story to tell itself. There also is something more impressive about the craftsmanship required to illustrate something like the maelstrom in "The Little Mermaid" that maintains a "tonal" verisimilitude to the overall animation of the film versus the craftsmanship required to create a similar effect digitally where the storm that looks "tonally" different from the characters of the film.
I think I just might prefer something that looked like this:
I'm still excited about the film, but the push for digital animation -- especially when unnecessary -- bothers me. I'll watch digitally animated Pooh on TV, and enjoy it, but I want to see hand drawn Pooh in the theaters. I think the same might just apply with Tintin.
2 comments:
There's a comment thread at the Guardian about the trailer. No new insights, really, but I thought this was pithy:
Why would you make a film of something well known for its appearance and so thoroughly alter the way it looks?
That's pretty much my point. It's like a museum selling 3D computer renditions of Mucha posters in an entirely different illustration style.
Why do it? Why not do an excellent hand drawn animated feature.
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